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virtue of tliis act, shall be compensated for their service by the town 

 of Braintree, at such rate as the town may agree upon, at the time 

 the\' arc chosen. 



Skct. 8. Be it farther enacted, That an act entitled " An Act to 

 regulate the taking of fish called alewives, in Monatiquot River in 

 the town of Braintree," passed on the first day of March, in the year 

 of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninet^'-nine, and an act 

 entitled " An Act in addition to an Act entitled An Act to regulate 

 the taking of the fish called alewives in Monatiquot River, in the 

 town of Braintree," passed on the twenty-eighth da}' of Februar}', in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be and 

 hereby are i-epealed. — [Feliruary 20, 1818. 



[1840,37; 1877,123.] 



[Sp. Laws, vol 1, p. 518.] 

 An Act to prevent the taking of Fish near the Dam, at tbe Canal at South Hadiey 



Falls on Connecticut River. 



1817, 157. Sect. 1. Be it enacted, That no person or persons at 

 an}' time hereafter shall take any salmon or shad within one mile and 

 a half of an}' part of tbe dam in Connecticut River, near the canal 

 at South Hadiey, with any net, seine, pot, scoop-net or any other 

 machine or instrument whatever. And if an}- person or persons shall 

 take or catch an}' salmon or shad, contrary to the true intent and 

 meaning of this act, each person so oflTending shall, for every such 

 offence, forfeit and pay a fine of. twenty dollars. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted. That all nets, seines and other 

 machines and instruments, used in taking salmon and shad as afore- 

 said, shall be and hereby are forfeited to any person or persons who 

 shall prosecute for the same, with costs of suit, to his or their own 

 use, upon complaint or information to any justice of the peace in and 

 for either of the counties of Hampshire or Hampden ; who may there- 

 upon issue his warrant to seize the same, to be kept until trial of the 

 said complaint or information, which the said justices are hereby 

 fully authorized to hear and determine. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That all sums of money forfeited 

 by any breach of this act, shall and may be sued for and recovered 

 by action or information, with costs of suit, before any justice of the 

 peace within the counties of Hampshire or Hampden ; and one half 

 of such fine shall enure to him or them who shall sue or prosecute for 

 the same; and the other half for the use of the county in which said 

 action or information shall be prosecuted. And any person or per- 

 sons aggrieved at the sentence of the justice of the peace, given in 

 pursuance of this act, may appeal therefrom to the next circuit court 

 of common pleas, to be holden in the county in which judgment may 

 be rendered. — [February 20, 1818. 



